Following the Boston Bruins 1-0 loss to the Vancouver Canucks in Game 1 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals, Bruins head coach Claude Julien was noted as saying the following when asked about his team’s continued struggles on the power play: “As long as we’re able to stay on even terms with them when it comes to special teams, we’re all right with that.”
No, Claude, at this time of the yea...

For every city and every team that has ever won a championship there is always one moment after the season is done where the players and fans can look back at with 20/20 hindsight and say “That's it! That's the moment we went from contenders to champions.”
A brief look back at some local moments.
September 30, 2001: Some 6th round draft pick from Michigan was starting his first NFL...

The talk in Boston all day Monday leading up to Game 5 of the Bruins’ Eastern Conference Finals against the Tampa Bay Lightning was if the Bruins eventually drop the series to the Lightning, they will forever look back upon their blown chance in Game 4 when they let a three goal lead slip away before losing 5-3. There was redemption of sorts for the Bruins in Game 5, however, as Tampa returne...

My freshman year of high school I had an English teach who had a bad habit of not really correcting the first drafts of any paper. Rather, she would bust out this big red pen and scrawl “SO WHAT?” at the very end of every paper in big letters. The lesson we were ultimately supposed to learn was how to properly analyze a piece of literature or a poem. I do not know if I ever really learned t...

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. A tale of two halves.
Despite clinching the Northeast Division title with a win over the Atlanta Thrashers their last time out, there was still plenty on the line for both teams as the Boston Bruins traveled to Madison Square Garden to take on the New York Rangers on Monday night.
For Boston, they entered the game with four contests left on t...

It was disappointing to see the winning streak come to an end tonight. Maybe it was the road finally catching up with the team? Or the fact that tonight's game was their fifth in eight days?
How about the fact that the Penguins were better for most of the night. As Claude Julien said after the game, the Bruins “played probably half a game.” With the Penguins playing last night and...

It's Thomas vs The Flower tonight in net
Starters look like this:
PIT
James Neal, Mark Letestu, Alex Kovalev
Zbynek Michalek & Paul Martin
BOS
Krejci, Horton and Lucic
Chara & Boychuk
Patrice Bergeron is not with the team tonight for personal reasons and Steve Kampfer is out at least a week with a concussion.

It's been a wild week for the Calgary Flames, after dropping a tough decision to the Boston Bruins losing 2-1 in a game where Tim Thomas was spectacular, and he also got a little help from his posts in the game. Then they followed that game up with a 4-3 loss in shootout to the red hot San Jose Sharks where Miikka Kiprusoff stood on his head to keep the Flames in it and salvage a point.
Then b...

It was redemption the Boston Bruins sought on Sunday afternoon and a chance to prove themselves against one of the NHL’s elite as they went to Detroit to take on the Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena. Just two days earlier, the West’s Central Division leading Red Wings embarrassed the Bruins, dealing the Black-and-Gold their most disappointing lose of the season, 6-1, on home ice.
The second gam...

Outside of Phil Kessel, the ex-Bruin that the fans look forward to seeing the most is Joe Thornton. Including yesterday's 2-0 blanking of the B's, the three times Jumbo Joe has returned to Boston, his Sharks have always come out on the winning end. “It is just a win. Maybe the first time I was here, you wanted to win the first one. But now it is just any other road game, I think....

It's not as big as Kesselmania but it's generally exciting when Joe Thornton returns to Boston. The Sharks enter winning 6 of their last 7 and a modest 2 game win streak. Today is the first of a six game road trip for San Jose.
Next up the Caps, Blue Jackets, Devils, Panthewrs and Preds.
Leading their teams out were Tim Thomas and Antti Neimi so we will look for them to start